A History of Antisemitism
2022 · 1 season · 4 episodes · Ended · ARTE
Documentary
TMDB 6.8 · 5 votes
A detailed account of the two millennia of intolerance and persecution suffered by the Jews, from antiquity to the present day.
Episodes
- S01E01In the Beginning: 38-11442022-04-1253m
A history of anti-Jewish feeling from ancient Alexandria to the crusades.
- S01E02Rejection: 1144-17912022-04-1253m
1144 - 1791: the gradual dehumanisation of the Jewish people, from the first "Jewish nose" in Christian painting and the stereotype of the "rich usurer" to the expulsion of the Jews from the great kingdoms of Europe.
- S01E03Emancipation to the Holocaust: 1791-19452022-04-1253m
Liberty, equality, fraternity? The French Revolution gave European Jews hope that discrimination would end. However, political movements and pseudo-scientific trends generated new forms hatred of Jews, under a new term: "anti-Semitism".
- S01E04The New Face of Antisemitism: 1945 to Today2022-04-1253m
How is antisemitism still possible after Auschwitz? After the war, the Nazi horror is gradually brought to light in all its terrifying dimensions. However, the anti-Semitic Phoenix rises from its ashes once again.
Cast
Christian GononSelf - Narrator (voice)- David NirenbergSelf - Historian
- Nathalie CohenSelf - Historian
- Peter SchäferSelf - Historian
- Antoine GuggenheimSelf - Theologist
- Joël KotekSelf - Historian
- Alain VanierSelf - Psychoanalyst
- Sylvie-Anne GoldbergSelf - Historian
- Brian A. CatlosSelf - Historian
- Ghaleb BencheikhSelf - Islamologist
- Joanna Tokarska-BakirSelf - Anthropologist
- Sarah LiptonSelf - Historian